Midnight in Porto (On New Year’s Eve’s Eve)
It’s midnight in Porto and I’ve just finished watching Midnight In Paris, in which “screenwriter” Owen Wilson finds himself in Paris with his fiancée and somehow time-travels back to 1920s Paris [...]
A Beginner’s Guide to AirBNB
AirBNB changed the travel game. It’s an in-between option people like me who can’t shell out for a hotel, or need more than budget hotels offer, but also don’t dig hostelling anymore. When I [...]
Snapshot in Time: Notes from a Plaza in Porto
I’m on the edge of the sketchy part of town, where tourists and the low-income folks intersect, reminding me of Gastown back home in Vancouver. A short bossy man with thick-framed glasses and a [...]
A Merry Nomadic Christmas From Me
2015 will always be the Christmas that I was fed by Muslims in Catholic Portugal. That’s one of those weird travel experiences you can’t foresee. I walked over three kilometres last night [...]
My First Nomadic Christmas
It's the morning of Christmas Eve here in Porto and the sun shines after a dreary, bone-soaking day of rain yesterday. I'm not sure yet what my Christmas holds. I do know I have a lot to figure [...]
Lisbon: Much Ado About A Few Regrets
It’s my last day in Lisbon and the prospect of packing for Porto begins tonight. For some reason I’ve woken today with a weather migraine and healthy dose of regret. I feel like I somehow [...]
Dining in Portugal (and Europe) 101
Because I’m on a budget, I keep resorting to TripAdvisor for reviews. Sometimes they’re right, sometimes they’re wrong. The trouble is, so many travellers come with North America locked in their [...]
Then I Was in Portugal: My Grand Misadventure
It’s the third morning of my Portugal leg of my adventure. Up the hill, someone is burning waste from land-clearing arundo donax, an invasive reed that’s a cross between corn and bamboo, which [...]